New editors - WMDE deep dive - analytics questions - phase 1
7th July 2020
Reference Document: New editors - WMDE deep dive - analytics questions
Background/ Reason why
The first campaign which contained tracking was conducted in 2017. Since then several campaigns with different content and user journeys have been realized. For strategic decisions on future activities to gain new editors we want to comprehensively analyze past activities and their impact. Besides qualitative results we need to consider quantitative results. As campaign reports usually cover a certain time during and after the campaign but no long term effects. This should be done in this comprehensive analysis.
Timing
Briefing: 9th July 2020
Delivery of report: week 31
General requirements
The report should be delivered in tables and charts in html as in previous reports
The report might be publicly available in the future. For this delivery deadline this is no requirement.
Communication will happen in phabricator
Based on this report we will have more questions which should be addressed in a phase 2 in August.
The time span for this report is January 2017 until June 2020
Analytics areas
Organic development of editor numbers
What is the age of the German Wikipedia Community in terms of account age?
since January 2017: How many actively registered in de-WP? - NOTE: mind the user_self_made field in wmf.mediawiki_history
How many of them edited (since registration until 30th June 2020):
- 1 edit
- 2 to 5 edits
- 5 to 9 edits
- 10 to 49 edits
- 50 or more edits
retention rate: How many newly registered users are active after (active = at least 1 edit)
- 2 weeks after registration
- 1 month after registration
- 6 months after registration
- 12 months after registration
How high is the retention rate of these active users compared to the number of registrations?
Edit Classes (facets) x Account Age Classes (group, step: one year) x Time (horizontal) → do we observe always one and the same group of active editors, or do the newcomers join in to stay active editors? - start: 2017.
Direct campaigning effects
All previous campaigns should be covered. For the following we need the sum and the individual numbers per campaign
since January 2017: How many actively registered in de-WP?
How many of them edited (since registration until 30th June 2020):
- 1 edit or more
- 2 to 5 edits
- 5 to 9 edits
- 10 to 49 edits
- 50 or more edits
retention rate: How many newly registered users are active after (active = at least 1 edit)
- 2 weeks after registration
- 1 month after registration
- 6 months after registration
- 12 months after registration
How high is the retention rate of these active users compared to the number of registrations?
Of the people who started training modules (onboarding content used in 2018 in thank you, spring and summer campaign), how is the rate of still active users?